Here's how to get a job at Apple, according to CEO Tim Cook

Apple has worked hard to build its unique office culture. Its
employees are obsessive about changing the world and maintaining
a cult-like mentality to get there.

Hiring people that will fit in and flourish for a company
that — as its CEO Tim Cook jokes, "has more secrets
than the CIA" — isn't an easy process.

When asked by Charlie Rose during a "60 Minutes"
interview how Apple finds those people, Cook said he's looking
for people who are inherently not satisfied with things and want
to change the world as a result.

"You look for people who work for a different reason. People who
want to change the world. People who work with a passion and
idealism. People that don't take no for an answer. People who
don't accept the status quo," Cook said. "People that are
inherently not satisifed with things. People who see things and
they know it should be different, and they sit and they focus on
it until they find an answer. People that can't be told things
are impossible. They can't accept that."

Those are all great qualities for people to have, but as Rose
points out, that's not what your typical résumé lists. Cook
admits its hard to screen for, but once you know it you see it.
"We don't test," he said.

Apple instead has 10 or 12 people do an interview and look
at the candidate from different points of view rather than
limiting it to only one person making a decision, Cook said.

They're not looking for someone who agrees and is a perfect match
with all 12 people. Cook points out that he's surrounded by
people who disagree with him often. But it's important to be able
to defend your point of view, and still have the drive to want to
change the world.

"We're looking for wicked smart people who have a point of view,
and want to debate that point of view, and people that want to
change something," Cook said. "People that want to make things
better."